*Lisa and Laura Ling come to the Clinton School to talk about their new book, "Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home," 6 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 13

*The Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute presents the second annual Arkansas Underground Film Festival at the Malco in Hot Springs, 6 p.m., $7-$38. With a stellar line-up, including films by David Lynch, Jim Henson, Phil Chambliss (!) and William Wegman (above). Check the full schedule on the jump.

*Self-proclaimed "dirty old one man band’ Scott H. Biram comes to Juanita's, with Brother Andy and Joey and Kelly Kneiser from Glossary opening.

ARKUFF! Arkansas Underground Film FestivalAug. 13-15, 2010Cost: $7/night, $10 VIP PassVIP Pass includes admission to all films, after party events, and discount to Sunday’s “Intro to Film” workshop. A $38 Value!_________________________________________

Friday, August 13:

6:00PM-Famous First’sBefore they reached acclaim, these filmmakers were struggling to find their voice and identity as artists. Catch a rare glimpse of these famous filmmakers before the fact!

7:30PM- Arkansas’ Finest: Films by Nancy Silver and Phil Chambliss Arkansas has long been a place of independent spirt. Nancy Silver (Bonnerville, AR) and Phil Chambliss (Locust Bayou, AR) have bucked the system by producing completely original underground movies without huge dollars or film school educations.

9:15PM- Eraserhead- David Lynch, 89min, 1977The granddaddy of underground films, Eraserhead was first released strictly as a “midnight” movie in the late 1970s. The film, which took over five years to make, soon developed a huge underground following and remains one of the most original and peculiar films ever made. Happy Friday the 13th!

The video work of California artist, Yoshie Sakai, can be quirky and cute but also personal and deeply engaging. In her work, she is the unassuming underdog lost in a complicated world full of obstacles— and is almost impossible not to root for.

William Wegman is best known for his work with dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners, but also as a pioneer video artists during the early days of video technology. In this mini-retrospective, we will see some of his earliest video experiments, plus Hardley Gold, an iconic Wegman film that re-enacts the Hardy Boys legacy with his Weimaraners.

Sadie Benning, daughter of experimental filmmaker James Benning, acquired a Fisher-Price PXL-2000 toy video camera as a 16-year-old Milwaukee teenager in 1989. She used this primitive camera to make diary-style home movies confronting her developing sense of identity and lesbian sexuality. These videos quickly became underground hits early in the 1990s, and Sadie Benning became one of the youngest-ever cult film icons.

Miranda July is best known for her feature film, You, Me, and Everyone We Know (2005). She has also presented work at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials. Nest of Tens (2000) is an earlier experimental video that portrays four alternating stories about mundane, personal methods of control.

The following program includes two films each by American filmmakers, Bruce Conner and Kenneth Anger, and one from German filmmaker, Matthias Muller. Alpsee eerily portrays the struggles of a young boy’s smothering adolescence. Looking for Mushrooms documents Bruce Conner’s Mexican mushrooms hunts with Timothy Leary, while Valse Triste is a found-footage film invoking nostalgia for Conner’s Kansas upbringing. Kustom Kar Kommandos subversively sexualizes greaser car culture, while Invocation of My Demon Brother, with a moog soundtrack by Mick Jagger, takes us into the startling world of occult rituals and the supernatural.

**This program it intended for mature audiences, viewer discretion advised.

Proclaimed by experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage as, “one of the greatest films ever made,” The Hart of London is truly one of the more obscure masterpieces of our time. Mixing newsreel footage with his own materials, Chambers paints a picture of humanity within the city limits of his hometown of London, Ontario.

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9:30PM- Visions of Madness: Matthew Silver & Mara Mattuschka

Perhaps the most bizarre program of the festival highlights intense visions of humanity and extreme self-conscious behavior by Matthew Silver (New Jersey) and Mara Mattuschka (Austria).

Intro to Film WorkshopAn introduction to super 8mm and 16mm film (NOT video!)

Learn how to use film in the digital age! This workshop will cover different film stocks, film cameras, how to use a light meter, run a projector, and develop your own film by hand. Various hand-processing techniques such as photograming and solarization will be covered. This workshop is intended for non-narrative and “experimental” filmmaking.

Taught by Andrew Busti, MFA-Film Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Bearded Child Traveling Film Festival is to underground film what molten lava is to the center of the earth. In the alternative setting of Low Key Arts, come for a mind-numbing selection of new and indescribably bizarre video works. To our knowledge, only The Little Business Man has been shown publicly in the United States, as it has one small public showing in 2005. All other works are completely new and unseen!

***Short films of Igor and Ivan BuharovBy special request from Budapect, Hungary, we bring you the Buharov brothers! Mixing elements of Jan Svankmajer, Brothers Quay and Planet of the Apes, the Buharov’s are completely unlike anything to be made on American soil.

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A rediscovered violin concerto brings an oft-forgotten composer into the limelight.

My colleagues John Ray and Jesse Bacon and I estimate, in the first analysis of its kind for the 2018 election season, that the president's waning popularity isn't limited to coastal cities and states. The erosion of his electoral coalition has spread to The Natural State, extending far beyond the college towns and urban centers that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. From El Dorado to Sherwood, Fayetteville to Hot Springs, the president's approval rating is waning.

Despite fierce protests from disabled people, the U.S. House voted today, mostly on party lines, to make it harder to sue businesses for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. Of course Arkansas congressmen were on the wrong side.